September 2005

“THE SITUATION IS CRITICAL… CHAOTIC. THE NEEDS ARE OVERWHELMING,” reports Dan O’Deens from the hurricane refugee center in Shreveport, Louisiana. O’Deens, senior pastor of Gateway Grace Community Church in Parkesburg, PA, has been named coordinator for Northwest Louisiana for a major relief agency. That means he is responsible to care for the basic needs of

“THE SITUATION IS CRITICAL … CHAOTIC. THE NEEDS ARE OVERWHELMING,” reports Dan O’Deens from the hurricane refugee center in Shreveport, Louisiana. O’Deens, senior pastor of Gateway Grace Community Church in Parkesburg, PA, has been named coordinator of a major relief agency for Northwest Louisiana. That means he is responsible to care for the basic needs

Terry Hofecker, pastor of Northwest Chapel Grace Brethren Fellowship, is currently embedded as a law enforcement chaplain with a unit in New Orleans. Here is a report he sent for sharing with the Fellowship: I am a law enforcement chaplain attached to a five-person crisis responseteam that is assessing the present emotional and spiritual devastation

Nine chainsaws plus six minutes equals one tree down and cut up! 

This is some of the devastation Jim Brown and crew are facing in Mobile, Alabama. 

Pat Phillips, BMH board member and lay leader at the Columbus (OH) East Side Grace Brethren Church (Chip Heim, pastor), has sent along the following report of how East Side has teamed with a Houston church to help Katrina victims: After having served as youth pastor and associate pastor at East Side GBC in Columbus,